
[A re-post from our archives in memory of conductor Andrew […]
Precisely why this recording—made live at Covent Garden in 1973—is
Reginald Goodall conducts this May 1971 live Covent Garden Parsifal with the same rhythmic enervation and indifferent sense of shape that mark his EMI studio
If you tend to regard opera translations from a distance (probably having experienced some rather awkward ones), rest assured that this English version of Tchaikovsky’s
When this disc was issued back in the late 1970s the world was still in love with Kiri Te Kanawa’s beautiful tone and had not
There are several glorious things about this 1978 performance. Frederica von Stade’s Hansel is just about perfect, bettering even Elisabeth Grümmer’s (on EMI). She’s in
This documentary takes us behind-the-scenes during the production of Deutsche Grammophon’s wildly successful 1984 audio recording of West Side Story. It was Leonard Bernstein’s first
With the exception of “Come scoglio” from Cosi, which comes from 1977, all of the selections here were recorded after 1990, arguably after the fullness,
Possessor of a voice of staggering beauty and a technique that never failed her, Kiri Te Kanawa is one of the most adored sopranos of
Notifications